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Black and white portrait photograph of Max Franklin Millikan smiling.

Stamp on verso reads: "From The Technology Review"

Original caption: "Max F. Millikan is professor of economics and director of the Center for International Studies of M.I.T.; his principal publications have been in the fields of foreign aid and economic development. A graduate of Yale University (B. S. in Physics 1935, and PhD. in Economics 1941), Dr. Millikan served on the staff there for 11 years, held various government posts in the Office of Price Administration, War Shipping Administration, and Department of State from 1942 to 1946, came to M.I.T. in 1949, and was on leave in 1951 to serve as assistant Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a trustree of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, president of the World Peace Foundation, and a member of various advisory committees in the fields of economic policy and foreign relations. As director of the M.I.T. Center for International Studies, Dr. Millikan is responsible for acedemic research in support of educational activities in economic and political development, international communication, and military and foreign policy."